Middle Ages Brainstorms:

Literature

• Display in Library
• Catherine Called Birdy - Cushman
• Crispin the Cross of Lead - Avi
• Adam of the Road - Gray
• Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
• The Midwife's Apprentice - Cushman
• Castle - David Macauley
• Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page - Platt

From Crispin Web Site:
Favorite Medieval Tales retold by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Troy Howell
Medieval Britain by Henry Loyn, Alan Sorrell, and Richard Sorrell
Medieval Tales That Kids Can Read and Tell Contributor, Lorna MacDonald Czarnota
Medieval World by Philip Steele (Be sure to check out all three volumes of this series!)
Medieval World (world history, (Usborne) by Jane Bingham
The Storyteller’s Guide: Storytellers Share
The World of the Medieval Knight (World of . . . .series) by Christopher Gravett, illustrated by Brett Breckon

Math

• Milk Carton Catapults

Science

• Epidemiology
• Plague
• Fleas
• Rats
• Bacteria
• Catapults - Milk Cartons - http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/RR/database/RR.09.96/gareau1.html

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Social Studies

• simulation
• David Macauley - Video Series
• Pilgrimage to the Holy Land or to Rome

Art

• Illuminations
• tapestries

Advisory

• Illuminations

Schoolwide

• Chess Ladder
• Autobiographies for fair - Walter Reed Middle School Wiki - http://www.reedmstech.com/library/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=43
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• Fair:
  • juggling
  • barbarians
  • fencing on buckets
  • fencing (Mr. Price)
  • dancing
  • wrestling
  • hammer throwing
• WCD
  • Stick Horse Joisting
  • Tournament

Cross Curricular:

• Interact Simulation - Christendom (Maybe advisories or SS classes)
• Middle Ages Across the Curriculum (suggestions list):
• Middle Ages Lis